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General News of Saturday, June 15, 2019
Source: ghanaiantimes.com.gh
2019-06-15
The two Canadians were rescued by the police 11 days after their abduction
A representative group of Ghanaians congratulated the Ghana Police Service for rescuing the two Canadian girls Patricia Catherine Tilly and Bailey Jordan Chitty from their kidnappers yesterday, but questioned the silence about the missing girls from Takoradi.
According to some Ghanaians, although the rescue was commendable, they were of the opinion that the police should have given the same seriousness and the same commitment to the safeguarding of Takoradi 's daughters.
Mr. Selorm Mensah, 35, said that in the case of the Takoradi girls, the police took things lightly when they were reported to them until the third girl was brought disappeared. It is now badumed that these girls are not in the country.
"If the Ghana Police Service had acted quickly like Canadian girls, the story of Takoradi's daughters would have been different now," he said.
Although he was of the opinion that the situations were different because one case concerned foreigners and other Ghanaian nationals, the police and other security experts of the country could have done better. in the case of the three Takoradi girls.
Mensah praised the police for taking over Ghana's image in international circles by saying that if the girls had not been saved so far, the international media would have swept Ghana .
For Komla Agbo, priority has been given to Canadian girls to manage the country's image abroad.
He questioned the validity of Inspector General of Police (IGP) David Asante-Apeatu's visit to Kumasi in order to help find the two missing Canadian girls, while it had not yet come to Takoradi to encourage the families of the three missing girls.
"I think the police and the government have given Canadians priority over our own citizens and that makes me sad," he said.
He called on the police to redouble their efforts to find Ghanaian girls to dispel the impression that Canadian girls were saved to save the country's image.
A Ghanaian Times reporter, John Vigah, said the police had done a good job because the kidnapping issue was giving the country a bad name in the international community.
"While I congratulate the security forces, they deserve a lot of applause for the work they have done, but I would like to ask them to do everything in their power to ensure that the girls from Takoradi are saved and found with their children. families. have suffered tremendous emotional torture in recent months, "he said.
Dr. Agyenim Boateng, a research scientist, said the rescue of Canadian girls made it clear how the country viewed its citizens less.
Elisabeth Ahiadzi, sai, a visibly angry mobile money saleswoman, the situation was heartbreaking and suggested the murder of the kidnappers while expressing her surprise at the use of taxpayer money to transport "criminals" in a plane in Accra.
Mrs. Yayra Mensah, an accountant, said that this clearly defined the lack of respect for human rights in the country, pointing out that the laws of the country seemed to favor only the rich, while the poor still suffered.
"It's too much, just because the parents of these girls do not have money to find their children, they always hurt," she said.
She asked the police to ensure that the girls from Takoradi were brought home and found with their families as soon as possible.
Earlier this month, two Canadian girls who participated in an exchange program with the Entrepreneurship Department of Kumasi Technical University were kidnapped in Kumasi and were saved in Akorem, Kumasi. Sawaba, in the suburb of Kumasi, by the command of the Ashanti Regional Police, together with other security agents in the early hours of Wednesday.
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